Letter from Francis Jackson, Ellis Gray Loring, Amos B. Merrill, and S. E. Sewall to Stephen S. Foster, requesting that he address the public at an assembly at Fenuiel Hall, Boston [Massachusetts] on October 30, 1842.

Resolution produced by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that the United States Congress must abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Includes note that the "resolves were passed by the House in the 21st, & by the Senate of the 23 March" and that the resolutions are the same that are referred to in the letters of E. Jackson and R. C. Winthrop.

Manuscript copy of a correspondence between Edmund Jackson and Hon. Robert C. Winthorp, in which Jackson asks for Winthorp's position on slavery before his election to United States Congress. Includes Winthorp's response dated November 2, 1840, in which he replies that he "cannot regard it as desirable or expedient to attempt any alteration of the Constitution in relation to slavery."

Printed circular by Elizur Wright, Jr., Secretary of the Anti-Texas Committee, asking Massachusetts citizens to collect signatures for petitions against the admittance of Texas into the Union as a Slave state. On back, list of ca. 40 names of participants.

Petition [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] to Massachusetts Governor Marcus Morton to appoint Amos B. Merrill to act as an agent for "colored seamen" in the ports of Charleston [South Carolina] and New Orleans [Louisiana].

Letter to the Mayor [Samuel Atkins Eliot] and Aldermen of Boston [Massachusetts] from Francis Jackson and 11 other committee members [of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] arguing a recent denial for permission to use Faneuil Hall for a meeting about slave trade in the District of Columbia.

Undated letter from Francis Jackson, Edmund Quincy, and William Bassett to the editor of the Boston Transcript [Lynde Walter] reagrding an advertisement taken out by The Liberator's editor [Isaac] Knapp.

Undated draft of a petition by S. E. Sewall to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives to condemn the imprisonment of African American sailors when docked in particular United States ports.

Petition letter [from the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society] asking the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to protest in United States Supreme Court against the wrongful imprisonment of "colored citizens" employed on trade ships arriving at the ports of slaveholding states.

Unsigned manuscript letter from "the friends of William Lloyd Garrison," soliciting donations with which they hope to buy him a home. Names trustees Ellis Gray Loring, Francis Jackson and Samuel Philbrick.

Letter from Francis Jackson and William Lloyd Garrison, with no addressee, notifying of appointment to serve as a delegate for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society at the 6th Anniversary celebration of the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York on May 7, 1839.

Four-page circular for distribution to readers of The Liberator, soliciting donations and additional subscribers. Includes quotes of praise from several well-known abolitionists, such as Gerrit Smith and George Thompson.

Letter from Edmund Quincy to J. [] Williams, a librarian for the Public Library in Dedham [Massachusetts], in response to his request for volumes of literature produced by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.

Undated and unsigned printed circular from the American Anti-Slavery Society for distribution among auxiliary societies, outlining plans of operation including distibution of material, collection of funds, and reports to the Executive Committee.